Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book presents deliberate practice exercises to help students, trainees, and clinicians rehearse fundamental skills in emotion-focused therapy (EFT) and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
Deliberate practice is a rigorous training method that involves repeated behavioral rehearsal and stimulation-based learning therapy techniques, thus ensuring that practical knowledge is retained and becomes natural so that it drawn upon automatically in real clinical encounters.
Each exercise in this book presents several role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor.
Instructions guide all three participants through the application of specific EFT techniques and interpersonal skills, such as responding empathically to clients, exploring emotions with them, building therapist self-awareness, recognizing client markers to set up chair work, and repairing relationship ruptures. Client statements and sample therapist responses, organized by difficulty from beginner to advanced levels, highlight common therapeutic interactions.
These exercises were developed and thoroughly tested and refined based on feedback from EFT training groups internationally, ensuring that deliberate practice effectively complements existing training programs and methods.
Synopsis
This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental emotion-focused therapy (EFT) skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.
Each exercise consists of role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The trainee playing the therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to a series of client statements organized into three difficulty levels--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--that reflect common problems and concerns encountered by EFT practitioners.
The first 12 exercises each focus on a single skill, such as responding empathically to clients, exploring emotions, building therapist self-awareness, recognizing client markers, and repairing relationship ruptures. These are followed by two comprehensive exercises--an annotated transcript and free-form mock therapy sessions--in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single EFT session.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
Synopsis
This deliberate practice exercises in this concise clinical training manual give trainees an effective method for building competence in the common factors all therapists must master, while also developing skills fundamental to emotion-focused therapy (EFT).
Each exercise consists of role-playing scenarios that reflect problems and concerns commonly encountered by EFT practitioners. They are flexibly designed so trainees at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels benefit from careful supervision and guidance, gain insight without actually being in front of clients, and hone their personal therapeutic style.
Each of the first 12 exercises focuses on a single skill, such as responding empathically to clients or building therapist self-awareness. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single EFT session. Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
This book is accompanied by a companion website that features downloadable versions of the book's appendixes, including a deliberate practice reaction form, a guide for distinguishing between different types of empathic responses, and a sample syllabus: http: //pubs.apa.org/books/supp/deliberate-practice.